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MySQL in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
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MySQL in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

by Russell J. T. Dyer
April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
566 pages
21h 55m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Starting Replication

After you create the replication user accounts, configure the servers properly, and load the backed-up databases onto the slave server, you’re ready to begin replication. Execute the following SQL statement while logged in as root or a user with SUPER privileges on the slave:

START SLAVE;

After this statement is run, the slave should connect to the master and get the changes it missed since the backup. From there, it should stay current by continuously interacting with the master, as outlined in the Replication Process” section earlier in this chapter.

If everything is configured correctly on the slave, it will most likely start without a problem and return no message when START SLAVE is executed. However, when the slave tries to connect to the master, the connection may fail. Or when the SQL thread begins processing entries received from the master, it may fail. For whatever reason, if a slave fails after it is started, the client that started the slave will not be informed of the failure, nor will it be informed of the subsequent termination of the slave thread. For that information, you will have to read the slave’s error logs. To confirm a slave is running, you can execute the SHOW SLAVE STATUS statement and check the results to see what state the slave is in, if any. We will describe the various slave states later in this chapter.

By default, the START SLAVE statement starts both the I/O thread and the execution thread as described earlier in the Replication ...

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